Binsey Poplars
The aspens that quelled and quenched the leaping sun in their leaves are all felled, not one spared, and the rank of them along the Thames has gone with the shadows that swam and sank in the water beneath. What follows is an argument about a particular kind of damage: ten or twelve strokes of a blade unselve a country scene, and the eye that would have loved it is the thing destroyed. Hopkins wrote it in 1879 on returning to Oxford and finding the trees at Binsey cut down.
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